"Because of your smile, you make life more beautiful." 
-Thich Nhat Hanh

"If you have a friend who suffers, you have to help him. 'My dear friend, you are on safe ground. Everything is okay now. Why do you continue to suffer? Don't go back to the past. It's only a ghost; it's unreal.' And whenever we recognize that these are only movies and pictures, not reality, we are free. That is the practice of mindfulness." 

-Thich Nhat Hanh

"In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change." 

-Thich Nhat Hanh 

"When you enter deeply into this moment, you see the nature of reality, and this insight liberates you from suffering and confusion. Peace is already there to some extent: the problem is whether we know how to touch it." 

-Thich Nhat Hanh

"Freedom is not given to us by anyone; we have to cultivate it ourselves. It is a daily practice... No one can prevent you from being aware of each step you take or each breath in and breath out." 
-Thich Nhat Hanh

"If we live with the understanding of impermanence, we will cultivate and nurture our love. Only then it will last." 

 -Thich Nhat Hanh

“Smile, breathe and go slowly.” 

-Thich Nhat Hanh

“There is no enlightenment outside of daily life.” 

-Thich Nhat Hanh

"Every thought you produce, anything you say, any action you do, it bears your signature." 

-Thich Nhat Hanh

"If you think that peace and happiness are somewhere else and you run after them, you will never arrive."
-Thich Nhat Hanh

"Meditation is offering your genuine presence to yourself in every moment."
-Thich Nhat Hanh

"There are many ways to calm a negative energy without suppressing or fighting it. You recognize it, you smile to it, and you invite something nicer to come up and replace it; you read some inspiring words, you listen to a piece of beautiful music, you go somewhere in nature, or you do some walking meditation."
-Thich Nhat Hanh

“Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor.”

-Thich Nhat Hanh

“Feelings, whether of compassion or irritation, should be welcomed, recognized, and treated on an absolutely equal basis; because both are ourselves. The tangerine I am eating is me. The mustard greens I am planting are me. I plant with all my heart and mind. I clean this teapot with the kind of attention I would have were I giving the baby Buddha or Jesus a bath. Nothing should be treated more carefully than anything else. In mindfulness, compassion, irritation, mustard green plant, and teapot are all sacred.”

-Thich Nhat Hanh

"In Zen Buddhism, the greater your doubt, the greater will be your enlightenment. That is why doubt can be a good thing. If you are too sure, if you always have conviction, then you may be caught in your wrong perception for a long time." 
-Thich Nhat Hanh

“Our happiness and the happiness of those around us depend on our degree of Right View. Touching reality deeply — knowing what is going on inside and outside of ourselves — is the way to liberate ourselves from the suffering that is caused by wrong perceptions. Right View develops through practicing the Eight-fold Path of enlightenment. Right View is not an ideology, a system, or even a path. It is the insight we have into the reality of life, a living insight that fills us with understanding, peace, and love.” 

-Thich Nhat Hanh

“The most precious gift we can offer anyone is our attention. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers.”
-Thich Nhat Hanh

"People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth. Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don't even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child -- our own two eyes. All is a miracle." 

-Thich Nhat Hanh

"People suffer because they are caught in their views. As soon as we release those views, we are free and we don't suffer anymore." 
-Thich Nhat Hanh

"People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar." 
-Thich Nhat Hanh